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Good bye independent implementation of API's? Oracle wins the appeal on Java API copyright. Page 5:
Because we conclude that the declaring code and the structure, sequence, and organization of the API packages are entitled to copyright protection, we reverse the district court's copyrightability determination with instructions to reinstate the jury's infringement finding as to the 37 Java packages.
From PCWorld:
The federal appeals court referred the case back to the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, where the two sides will have to return to do battle.
Oracle sued Google four years ago, saying its Android operating system infringes on patents and copyrights related to Oracle's Java technology.
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(Score: 1) by hottabasco on Saturday May 10 2014, @06:38PM
Yes. But you would only of copied the API, which granted, the court has just said is no-no. But I think that is the whole point of peoples anger, copyrighting the Java API is stupid, given that the whole point of that API is to facilitate communications (between software components). And for the courts to say the Java API's are copyrightable just takes my breath away.